Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
- ISBN 13:
- 9780349107868
- author:
- Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Abacus
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1997
- Pages:
- 640
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 12.7 x 4 centimetres (0.9
- Genre:
- Battles & campaigns
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. A new exploration of the Holocaust, challenging established answers and fundamental revisioning our understanding of the years 1933-1945. Drawing on previously unexplored and neglected materials, Goldhagen presents a disquieting picture of German society and its ingrained anti-Semitism, revealing that the perpetrators of the Holocaust were not the elite, but ordinary Germans from all walks of life. Through extensive testimony from the perpetrators themselves, Goldhagen shows that the killers were not coerced, nor did they follow orders blindly, nor were they driven by social pressure or peer conformity. Instead, they acted on a widespread, profound, and virulent antisemitism that led them to regard Jews as a demonic enemy whose extermination was necessary and just.
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